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Worship and Missions
An excerpt from John Piper's book, Let the Nations by Glad!
Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't. Worship is ultimate, not missions, because God is ultimate, not man. When this age is over, and the countless millions of the redeemed fall on their faces before the throne of God, missions will be no more. It is a temporary necessity. But worship abides forever.
The quote, which incidentally is the first paragraph of the book, reminds me of Zephaniah 3:9 "For then I will give to the peoples purified lips, That all of them may call on the name of the LORD, To serve Him shoulder to shoulder. 10 From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia My worshipers, My dispersed ones, Will bring My offerings."
Posted by tim at February 26, 2004 7:01 AM
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